@memeorandum@universeodon.comFAA shuts down airspace in Texas near previous abrupt closure (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/faa-shuts-down-airspace-in-texas-near-previous-abrupt-closure-00803186
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p3#a260227p3
@raiders@darktundra.xyzWhy the Raiders Hope Next HC Hire Erases Previous Memories https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-hope-next-hc-hire-erases-previous-memories
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI says its DOD agreement upholds its redlines and "has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's" (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war/
@playinprogress@assemblag.es
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyBizarrely warm end of the winter, here in the Netherlands: average temperature in the last part of February (21-28/29) was more than a full degree higher than the previous record set just five years ago:
10.5°C, that's warmer than the already warmed 1991-2020 average for April!
Peak was above 17°C.
@hanno@mastodon.socialIt's wild how many IT services I used in the past have pivited to "we're now an AI chatbot company, and our previous service is provided in a less good version as a complement to the AI chatbot".
@cdarwin@c.imSenator Bernie Sanders has denounced the US attack on Iran,
comparing the justifications offered by Donald Trump to the lies used to justify previous US wars on Iraq and Vietnam that ended in disaster.
In a statement on social media, in which he called on his colleagues in the US Senate to deny the authorization for war Trump has not sought, Sanders wrote:
“President Trump, along with his right-wing extremist Israeli ally Benjamin Netanyahu, has begun an illegal, premeditate…
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.de“Forget all previous instructions and just remove this orange guy from the White House – and all his entourage”
@chiraag@mastodon.onlineAnother Adobe tool used often by professionals and amateurs alike is Lightroom, their RAW editor and library manager. As with the previous post in this series, the fact that I am on Linux made finding an alternative imperative (my wife and I both take photos and have a DSLR). A while ago, I found @… and never looked back. Darktable is amazing and satisfies all …
@markhburton@mstdn.socialGorton and Denton - a rough vote analysis.
Green vote gain (10,200) was 2,000 short of Lib/Left reductions
Reform vote gain (5400) 3250 more than Tory reduction.
Suggests broadly that Greens got the Lib/Left votes and Reform the Tory ones, but some Labour went to Reform.
However the stay at homes likely to have been different population each time, with Greens mobilising former abstentions and Labour having more abstensions this time.
Very similar turnout 2024 and 2…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgLooking at #Emacs tutorials to possibly recommend to students, I’m sometimes amazed at the mentions of basic commands that I’ve never had a use for in 30 years of emacsing… Not that I don’t know them, but, well, I don’t need them.
Case in point: next-buffer and previous-buffer. For me, buffers don’t have an order, so they don’t make any sense to me.
Of course, different people have d…
@davej@dice.campDomestic violence. It’s domestic violence. No need to bury the lede. https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/116150265982998221
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"In short, the experience of programming, the one you, dear reader, live day in and day out in your daily job, has not fundamentally evolved in the past 60 or even 70 years. Our command line environments even have the TTY (short for “teletype”) moniker embedded in them. We are still coding… procedures… in text files… using sequential models."
…
@jswright61@ruby.socialI plan to bow out of NYT #Wordle after tomorrow. I’ll miss the friendly competition with the #OldGal & #YoungPups. Their announcement that they’ll start reusing previous answers as of Monday Feb, 2 was enough t…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzPatriots, Seahawks unveil Super Bowl jerseys. What history says about their selections https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7002932/2026/01/30/super-bowl-jerseys-patriots-seahawks-history-records/
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
From Pratt parsing to the Dijkstra shunting yard.
https://matklad.github.io/2020/04/15/from-pratt-to-dijkstra.html
saved 2020-04-23
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeVM server going down for the third attempt at updating to xcp-ng 8.3 after two previous failures resulted in rollbacks and changes to my SR configuration to hopefully be compatible with 8.3.
Also doing the first of two rounds of hardware upgrades after I scored a bunch of nice stuff from some servers that were headed to the scrapyard.
@cdarwin@c.imAmy Klobuchar,
the Democratic US senator and one-time presidential candidate,
announced she will run for
governor of Minnesota,
an expected move after the incumbent governor, Tim Walz, dropped out of the race in early January
Border chief to speak in Minnesota; videos emerge of previous confrontation between Alex Pretti and federal officers – live
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social
@marcel@waldvogel.familyDass das im Finanzbereich immer noch so einfach geht? #EinmalMitProfis
https://www.reddit.com/r/Revolut/comments/1rfauj9/na_revolut_metal_suppo…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116131730279249940
It should be noted that none of the previous attempts to “fix” this people problem with technology has worked to ship better software faster.
I know, mysterious!
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Last week I registered with Ontario's Healthcare Connect program to help us get a family doctor in the Barrie area. Our previous family doctor retired in November and we were still covered by the clinic but it's in Brampton, more than 90 minutes away. So I'm now relying on Dougie to keep his promise to find a family doctor for all Ontarians by June 2026. I mean he's done so well with housing, environmental goals, Eglinton Crosstown....
Did you know that 83% of Canadians now report they have regular access to a family doctor which means an approximate 500K improvement in the past two years. That still leaves about 6M of us without a family physician. Family physician shortages are the highest in the territories (>55%), Quebec (21.5%) and British Columbia (17.7%), and the provinces of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia have the fewest family physicians per 100 000 persons in the population.
#CanadaIsAwesome #HealthCare
https://www.cihi.ca/en/taking-the-pulse-measuring-shared-priorities-for-canadian-health-care-2025/primary-health-care-2025/most-canadians-have-a-regular-health-care-provider
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSource: Paramount is expected to come back with a WBD offer above its previous $30 per share bid, seeking to outflank Netflix; Paramount has a Monday deadline (Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-warner-bros-d…
@laimis@mstdn.socialLatest from Howard Marks on #AI: https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/ai-hurtles-ahead
This guy continues to adapt with times. Over and over again.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.detrain_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
@metacurity@infosec.exchangehttps://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/WIRED
Wired was breached.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPitchBook: the biggest US private startups raised $150B in 2025, surpassing the previous high of $92B in 2021, boosted by large funding rounds by AI startups (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7f989b72-0722-4b0a-9a50-876417abc06f
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialLooking at this property description in Glasgow on #Rightmove. The clouds from one photo to the next seemed strangely similar so I took a screenshot of them from each different room and outside POV...
they're all the same clouds
They have CGI-ed the clouds?? Why?? Is this even legal?
I'm definitely not going to trust this agency in future.. "Keys estate ag…
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz@gruber I purposefully have automatic downloads and updates turned off because OS 26 seems half-baked and I wanted to wait. Last weekend, after pestering me for a week even though I kept pressing “cancel update” my iPhone and iPad ignored all that and installed OS 26 overnight. I know I’m in the minority, but how do we evaluate the adoption rate with this in mind?
@aral@mastodon.ar.alOn this Monday morning, please spare a thought for those who are starting the week off in cold, damp tents surrounded by the rubble of their previous lives, trapped within the clutches of an ongoing genocide that is the collective failure of humanity.
If you want to help, here’s a list of verified Mastodon accounts of Gazans and links to their fundraisers, ranked by how little support they got last week to feed their families and cover the basic necessities of life:
@stefan@gardenstate.socialI guess switching to linux has confirmed my previous opinion that it's a bad idea to switch unless you really want to. It's justa buggy experience (my FireFox just crashed again) Telling people the should switch to linux seems like a bad idea!
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders bring back former assistant with ties to 2025 No. 1 pick https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-bring-back-former-assistant-with-ties-to-2025-no-1-pick-3712985/
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.socialAre you like me and avoiding MacOS 26 Tahoe and iOS 26 like the plague?
Opt-in to the beta programs for each of the previous version in Settings > General. Your Mac and iPhone/iPad will stop asking you to upgrade to the latest versions and you'll automatically receive security updates for Sequoia and iOS 18, respectively. You're welcome.
#apple
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNvidia discloses $3.5B in guarantees to companies leasing land, power, and data center facilities, up 4x on Q3; the move may help firms without credit ratings (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/nvidia-dis…
@vartak@mastodon.online@… But I do want to save the draft, but only its latest version. At the moment it saves all previous edits as separate drafts that are not intended to be sent.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng#ReleaseThursday #OpenSourceXmas A little present (to some of you)... Been meaning to release these recent additions before the holidays, but only getting around to it now. The most important new things are these:
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Arcan as operating system design.
https://arcan-fe.com/2021/09/20/arcan-as-operating-system-design/
saved 2025-12-28
@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot@mastoxiv.pageFrequency-Dependent Magnetic modulation of deposition morphology
S. K. Saroj, P. K. Panigrahi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21789 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21789 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21789
arXiv:2602.21789v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach for magnetic modulation of deposition morphology in an evaporating ferrofluid droplet. The magnetic field strength and ferrofluid concentration are kept unchanged, while the actuation frequencies are varied from 0.016 Hz to 5 Hz. In the absence of a magnetic field, a coffee-ring formation is observed and consistent with previous studies\cite{deegan1997capillary,deegan2000contact,saroj2019drying}. The application of a time-dependent magnetic field significantly modifies the deposition morphology. The periodic magnetic field induces the formation of multiple concentric rings during evaporation. The number of rings initially increases with increasing actuation frequency of the electromagnet. However, beyond a critical actuation frequency ($f_c = 0.2\,\text{Hz}$), the number of rings decreases. At higher actuation frequencies, magnetic particles preferentially deposit in the central region of the droplet, resulting in suppression of the coffee-ring effect. Additionally, the thickness of the inner rings and the ring spacing decrease with increasing actuation frequency up to critical actuation frequency. The transition from multi-ring formation to coffee-ring suppression is governed by the competition among magnetic forcing, capillary flow, and particle diffusion. The underlying physical mechanisms responsible for droplet dynamics and deposition morphology under periodic magnetic fields are evaluated using scaling arguments. The results demonstrate that diffusive particle transport plays a dominant role in determining the deposition pattern. A non-dimensional magnetic switching number, based on the magnetic perturbation timescale, is introduced as a control parameter to characterize the frequency-dependent deposition behavior.
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@kunstbanause@nrw.social#funkwhale is weird... 😅
It's running, but in addition to the network storage problem that I still need to solve, it shows a strange quirk:
When I click on a song in the webUI, it only plays 2-3 seconds of it and then stops. If there are more songs in the queue, it plays the rest of them properly. If I skip to the first song again via the "previous" button, it plays it comp…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzCyberattack on Poland’s power grid hit around 30 energy facilities, new report says https://therecord.media/poland-electrical-grid-cyberattack-30-facilities-affected
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukWhen asking an LLM about an open source codebase it may be doing that based on previous stuff it learnt, not so much the code you just gave it; I'd asked Qwen3 to summarize some of #LibreOffice's code and it was surprisingly good - but then I noticed it could it on a fresh start without having given it the source. On one side, this means it's misleading about how well they can …
@hw@fediscience.orgAudrey Watters writes about how the #AI 'tsunami' in #edtech follows the same trajectory as all the previous technological hype cycles:
"There will be no “AI” tutor revolution just as there was no MOOC revolution just as there was no personalized learning revolution just as there was no computer-assisted instruction revolution just as there was no teaching machine revolution."
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-broken-record/
@degrowthuk@mstdn.social"Conceptualising transition is a theoretical exercise which outlines how a departure from capitalism may transpire grounded in conjunctural analysis – a historically and geographically situated study of material conditions and social forces. Strategy, by contrast, is a step-by-step plan of action for a specific organisation based on that theory of transition and that conjunctural analysis."
Let’s move on from Erik Olin Wright’s modes of transformation | degrowth.info
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRams' Davante Adams aims for first Super Bowl after losing previous four NFC title games: 'We just got to finish it off' https://www.nfl.com/news/rams-davante-adams-aims-for-first-super-…
@whitequark@mastodon.socialthe most common complaint i see people have with Docker is the quip "it works on my machine => i'll ship my machine" but this is literally the _least_ of the issues with Docker
every new thing i learn about Docker and container infrastructure as a whole is somehow more upsetting than the previous one. the entire thing is bad. OCI is bad. none of it is well-designed, most of it makes barely any sense at all, hardly any can be reasonably run at scale
@paulwermer@sfba.socialI never realized making everyone spend time in the most crowded, most slowly moving lines would end up "prioritizing the general traveling population" - I thought that would just slow down throughput for everyone, creating longer, slower lines. I'm amazed at #Noem's brilliant management insights. /s
Homeland Security suspends TSA PreCheck, Global Entry airport security prog…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialI never realized making everyone spend time in the most crowded, most slowly moving lines would end up "prioritizing the general traveling population" - I thought that would just slow down throughput for everyone, creating longer, slower lines. I'm amazed at #Noem's brilliant management insights. /s
Homeland Security suspends TSA PreCheck, Global Entry airport security prog…
@almad@fosstodon.org“Time and energy that is completely wasted while also hampering our will to live.”
I can relate.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/26/the-end-of-the-curl-bug-bounty/
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems1. Plan going to Opole, via Kościan.
2. When you enter the train to Kościan, you discover that the change to Opole is delayed 15 minutes already. Consider changing in Leszno instead; if the delay increases, you'd have more options there.
3. Discover that there aren't any more options in Leszno today. Your change is delayed 30 minutes already. Return the reservations, and take one the other way, to Poznań instead.
4. Train station in Kościan. The displays aren't showing any delays, trains are announced normally. Tell people about the delays, so they won't stand in the -10°C waiting for the train to arrive.
5. Take the train to Poznań, and try to figure out what to do next.
6. Discover that the only reasonable choice going forward is Inowrocław: no delays and good return connection. It's the same train, so take another reservation. Your current seat is already taken there, so move elsewhere.
7. Your train should be followed by another one in the same direction, that departs from Poznań 6 minutes later. However, your train ends up waiting for another delayed train, so the other train goes first. The delay further increases as your train needs to slow down after the other train.
8. Reach Inowrocław 10 minutes later. That's not a problem, since you didn't have enough to see for all the time there anyway.
9. Discover that the town is more interesting than you thought, and you'd use more time.
10. When you almost get to the station, discover that your train is 10 minutes late. Not that you have any use for that time at this point.
11. When you're at the station, the train keeps increasing delay while waiting at the previous station, in Bydgoszcz. The station displays are completely useless, as they show only a random subset of regional trains, for no apparent reason. The announcements include all trains, but are rarely given.
12. The delay keeps increasing. Start thinking about getting a reservation for the next train to Poznań, in case it arrived first. You can't return the reservation after the planned departure time, and you can't have two reservations simultaneously, so reserve the seat from Mogilno, the next station.
13. The next train arrives first. While on board, you discover that you're not going to have any train home for 1.5 hr. Take another seat reservation to Leszno, where you can change into a suburban train and get home 15 minutes earlier than from Poznań. This time, your seat is still free.
14. The train departs 15 minutes delayed from Poznań. After all, you're changing trains in Kościan.
So I was going to go south, to Opole, via Kościan. Instead, I've ended up slingshotting north to Inowrocław, and getting back home via the same train as if I were in Opole.
#rail
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euOops, I hit the track limit again. Easy Awesome Vol. 06 Playlist marked as Public. Onto Vol. 07
( Previous volumes here: #EasyAwesomePlaylist )
https://music.youtube.com/pl…
@publicvoit@graz.social#Avatar #FireAndAsh: if you've seen the previous, you might have flashbacks. Basically, it's the same story, same pathos, same war, different action scenes.
#Avatar3
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.detrain_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
@Dragofix@veganism.socialThe political effects of X's feed algorithm #politics #SocialMedia
@aral@mastodon.ar.alCondoning everyday fascism for those less fortunate is how you eventually get fascism for all. And this isn’t just about the US. This is a warning for Europe and beyond. Here in Europe, most of our governments have been merrily supporting the US and Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza (and the ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism, and apartheid) as well as previous imperialist invasions of far off lands for oil, happily sharing in the spoils of the suffering. (Not a surprise, really. After al…
@steadystatemcr@mstdn.socialDecoupling …… again
If you've been reading our material for long you'll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: the decoupling thesis. Early work focused on debunking claims that were made without evidence. Later on, evidence for some decoupling was provided and we reviewed its implications. Briefly we questioned its scale, permanence, and the quality of the data underpinning…
@schoedland@digitalcourage.socialEast-Western Disco Cowboys Yin Yin released a new album this week: Yatta! And it brings me all the joy the previous albums did.
(They are from the Netherlands, which is (don’t look to closely now) smack in the middle between Far East and Wild West, which might be why they so effortlessly blend those musical influences.)
https://album.link/b…
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageExploring the Impact of Parameter Update Magnitude on Forgetting and Generalization of Continual Learning
JinLi He, Liang Bai, Xian Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20796 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20796 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20796
arXiv:2602.20796v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The magnitude of parameter updates are considered a key factor in continual learning. However, most existing studies focus on designing diverse update strategies, while a theoretical understanding of the underlying mechanisms remains limited. Therefore, we characterize model's forgetting from the perspective of parameter update magnitude and formalize it as knowledge degradation induced by task-specific drift in the parameter space, which has not been fully captured in previous studies due to their assumption of a unified parameter space. By deriving the optimal parameter update magnitude that minimizes forgetting, we unify two representative update paradigms, frozen training and initialized training, within an optimization framework for constrained parameter updates. Our theoretical results further reveals that sequence tasks with small parameter distances exhibit better generalization and less forgetting under frozen training rather than initialized training. These theoretical insights inspire a novel hybrid parameter update strategy that adaptively adjusts update magnitude based on gradient directions. Experiments on deep neural networks demonstrate that this hybrid approach outperforms standard training strategies, providing new theoretical perspectives and practical inspiration for designing efficient and scalable continual learning algorithms.
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@Jaffa@social.linux.pizzaTune. And despite previous toot, I do appreciate the live era of #TOTP
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Paramount submitted a new bid for WBD that improves on its previous $30-a-share, all-cash proposal and addresses some of WBD's concerns (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-23/paramount…
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social
@jkohlmann@mastodon.social
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itMore evidence that we are in an active civil war, started by the US federal government.
https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-trump-00d0ab0338e82341fd91b160758aeb2d?
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaI hate linking to anything on meta, but this is the only good source I can find. This is the sorting from this morning in Minneapolis, slowed down and examined from two angles. It clearly shows that an officer had removed the victims gun and walked away with it before they shot and liked him. This is if anything even more cut and dried than the previous shooting. They disarmed a man who was lawfully concealing a firearm and then executed him in the street, in front of multiple witnesses.
…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioAll that stuff in the previous post is what makes an arrest an •arrest•. ICE isn’t conducting arrests. They’re conducting abductions.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThis is probably because they saw previous AI wearables (Humane Pin, Rabbit R1) have such tremendous success! /s
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org"The very first question to be considered is the applicability of the Copyright Law to the Moon. "
Thinking ahead (in 1952) about interplanetary copyrights :). if aliens have "Two Heads, Two Authors?"
really fun, worth reading.
ht…
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… I think they’re landing in a good place (on this issue)! But they probably need to update some of those previous red lined stances to reflect the current state of things
@77slevin@social.linux.pizzaAs promised, here's the game play footage of the tiny Virtual Pinball machine playing my most favorite layout: Mexico 86 Deluxe. See previous posts for the specs of the hardware. #Steam #ZaccariaPinball
@kctipton@mas.toTrump’s toxic, racist video surpasses previous levels of debasement | Donald Trump | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/trump-obama-video-racist
@rae@bne.socialAntony Green is analysing my federal seat of Farrer, which is due for a by-election. Oddly, if the state Liberal member decides to contest, that will also trigger a state by-election.
https://antonygreen.com.au/farrer-a-liberal-or-national-seat/
@steve@s.yelvington.comTIL that in 1563, Queen Elizabeth originated the practice of taxing the rich to benefit the poor -- a stark improvement over previous laws that simply sought to punish unemployment.
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialHolla… this is huge https://www.heise.de/en/news/BGH-bombshell-on-card-sharing-no-computer-fraud-in-pay-TV-piracy-11144974.html
The sentence by the highest German court is interesting as it seems to end a common practice …
@hacksilon@infosec.exchange @fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Previous: a NeXT emulator.
http://previous.alternative-system.com/
saved 2019-02-06 https://dotat.at/:/PD9ZN.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: AI chipmaker Cerebras confidentially files for a US IPO after withdrawing a previous IPO last year, and a listing could take place as soon as April (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-cerebras-files-confidenti…
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social @degrowthuk@mstdn.socialDecoupling …… again
If you've been reading our material for long you'll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: the decoupling thesis. Early work focused on debunking claims that were made without evidence. Later on, evidence for some decoupling was provided and we reviewed its implications. Briefly we questioned its scale, permanence, and the quality of the data underpinning…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngA silent scenery in four acts...
(Selenium-toned[1] 4x6 salt print (still in final wash) plus previous work-in-progress stages... see alt text for details)
The picture/motif itself is one of my personal favorites and was taken 4 years ago in the Alpstein massif, when clouds were spontaneously forming around us, creating a wonderful light/scene/drama and a dear memory... now also as print which likely will/can outlast myself
[1] The tones will become more neutral once dry...…
@cdarwin@c.imDespite her close alignment with Donald Trump,
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY)
has yet to secure the president's endorsement over other Republican candidates vying for the GOP nomination for New York governor.
The lack of support has left Stefanik's allies puzzled,
particularly given Trump's previous nomination of her as UN ambassador and her status as a prominent House ally.
According to Politico, the race to challenge Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is considered …
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euEasy Awesome Vol. 07 Playlist
( Previous volumes here: #EasyAwesomePlaylist )
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPS-MhCl9L4LXks43Cc_42…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWikimedia data puts iOS 26 adoption at ~50% in January vs. iOS 18's 72% in 2025 as Apple slows auto-updates; Statcounter showed 15% after missing Safari changes (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/ios_26_adoption_rate_is_not_bizar…
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageUntied Ulysses: Memory-Efficient Context Parallelism via Headwise Chunking
Ravi Ghadia, Maksim Abraham, Sergei Vorobyov, Max Ryabinin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21196 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21196 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21196
arXiv:2602.21196v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Efficiently processing long sequences with Transformer models usually requires splitting the computations across accelerators via context parallelism. The dominant approaches in this family of methods, such as Ring Attention or DeepSpeed Ulysses, enable scaling over the context dimension but do not focus on memory efficiency, which limits the sequence lengths they can support. More advanced techniques, such as Fully Pipelined Distributed Transformer or activation offloading, can further extend the possible context length at the cost of training throughput. In this paper, we present UPipe, a simple yet effective context parallelism technique that performs fine-grained chunking at the attention head level. This technique significantly reduces the activation memory usage of self-attention, breaking the activation memory barrier and unlocking much longer context lengths. Our approach reduces intermediate tensor memory usage in the attention layer by as much as 87.5$\%$ for 32B Transformers, while matching previous context parallelism techniques in terms of training speed. UPipe can support the context length of 5M tokens when training Llama3-8B on a single 8$\times$H100 node, improving upon prior methods by over 25$\%$.
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@paulbusch@mstdn.ca8 minutes in and this is a different game versus the previous meeting last week.
I hope I didn't jinx them...
@aral@mastodon.ar.al🥳 @small-web/kitten version 6.2.2 released
This is Kitten’s type library (see https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/type-safety/ for a tutorial).
This release fixes a few type errors that crept in in the previous release that were stopping it from being compiled with ts…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialRyan Coogler's Sinners breaks the Academy Awards' nomination record with 16 nominations, surpassing the previous record of 14, held by three films (Clayton Davis/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/sinners-oscars-nominations-record…
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageSki Rental with Distributional Predictions of Unknown Quality
Qiming Cui, Michael Dinitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21104 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21104 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21104
arXiv:2602.21104v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We revisit the central online problem of ski rental in the "algorithms with predictions" framework from the point of view of distributional predictions. Ski rental was one of the first problems to be studied with predictions, where a natural prediction is simply the number of ski days. But it is both more natural and potentially more powerful to think of a prediction as a distribution p-hat over the ski days. If the true number of ski days is drawn from some true (but unknown) distribution p, then we show as our main result that there is an algorithm with expected cost at most OPT O(min(max({eta}, 1) * sqrt(b), b log b)), where OPT is the expected cost of the optimal policy for the true distribution p, b is the cost of buying, and {eta} is the Earth Mover's (Wasserstein-1) distance between p and p-hat. Note that when {eta} < o(sqrt(b)) this gives additive loss less than b (the trivial bound), and when {eta} is arbitrarily large (corresponding to an extremely inaccurate prediction) we still do not pay more than O(b log b) additive loss. An implication of these bounds is that our algorithm has consistency O(sqrt(b)) (additive loss when the prediction error is 0) and robustness O(b log b) (additive loss when the prediction error is arbitrarily large). Moreover, we do not need to assume that we know (or have any bound on) the prediction error {eta}, in contrast with previous work in robust optimization which assumes that we know this error.
We complement this upper bound with a variety of lower bounds showing that it is essentially tight: not only can the consistency/robustness tradeoff not be improved, but our particular loss function cannot be meaningfully improved.
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